FullTilt Poker overtakes Party Poker, Iggy moves on & Online Qualifiers for 2007 Aussie Millions

FullTilt Beats Party Poker ... FullTilt becomes 2nd biggest Site.

FullTilt Poker has over taken Party Poker to become the 2nd largest poker room online. Whilst Party Poker player volume has taken a severe beating after withdrawing from US online poker, FullTilt has continued to accept American online poker players and has reaped the rewards. PokerStars also staying with US players has maintained its dominance and number one position by a wide margin.

Other poker sites are continuing to consolidate and buy out other sites, notably the iPoker / Playtech buyout of the Tribeca Europe operation which will see the migration from Tribeca to the iPoker Network of sites like VC Poker. Playtech boasts this will make the iPoker network the largest NON US focussed poker network in the business. The move is certain to boost player volumes for existing sites on the network like Titan Poker & Noble Poker over the next few months.




Guiness & Poker Blog ... Iggy Moves Home

The single most successful poker blogger - Iggy is to continue his Guiness & Poker Blog famed for uber posts and random thoughts at a new home, having teamed up with the PokerWorks / Pokernews conglomerate he can now be found here - Iggy's Blog.

Which leads me into thoughts about my own very humble blog ...

Scrawnybob's 4kingpoker Ramble ... Iggy wannabe / Iggy I ain't

I started this blog as something of an after thought ... after launching 4kingpoker.com with no clue about setting up an internet poker site or blogging.

One piece of reoccuring blogging advice which I've probably ignored is to personalise your blog or maybe have an alter ego.

I'm pretty sure my personal life is of little or no importance beyond my small part of the universe and I'm not about to recast Scrawnybob as some kind of poker superhero but I should at least make my blog a little more friendly & personal.

OK so here it is - I'm no beer drinking high stakes poker player with masses of wit and wisedom to impart but at least my name isn't Muriel and I don't have 45 cats and an "exciting" photographic collection of teapot cosies as a basis for my blog.

I am Scrawnybob, an average joe poker player from the UK. Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down, but hopefully I'm always learning more about poker. I setup 4kingpoker.com around a year ago having sat on the domains for 18mnths watching the easy money of the poker affiliate boom pass me by until I finally decided to give it a go.

After several attempts at giving the blog a structure, a purpose and an aim I think it's time to give up on having a plan and just chuck anything in which I think might be interesting ... and as I am unlikely to come close to blogging on a daily basis I'm just going try to get something up once a week.

At the end of the day anyone reading this ... read it quick & just get on playing poker - If you find any of my reviews etc useful ... Please sign up to the sites using my links here or at 4kingpoker.com ;-) deposit some cash and get playing online poker.

Back in my corner of the world I spent the weekend down at a nice cottage in Wales with a few surfy types and ended up playing poker with chocolate coins for chips (it was that or jigsaw pieces / crunchy nut cornflakes) ... great fun and I'm sure I could have cleaned them all out if we hadn't all started eating away at our chip stacks ... It's was great to see a full table of new poker virgins enjoying the game for the first time and a great reminder that it's not all about updating bonus offers and keeping track of promotions / dates and all the affiliate stuff.

The Phil Helmuth Corner ... More Ranting, Bitchin & Moaning

This time Annie Duke takes the flack from Phil Helmuth the self appointed "Genius" of Poker.

2007 Aussie Millions ... Online Qualifiers & Satelites

My recommended sites with qualifiers & satelites for the 2007 Aussie Millions - FullTilt Poker, PokerStars, Titan Poker, Poker.com, Mansion Poker & UltimateBet




The Random Non Poker Stuff ... Waste your life with YouTube

You Tube is my new pet waste of time, along with 90% of the rest of the connected world. There is just so much cr*p on there but I still can help watching it ... So I feel obligated to post it up and waste your time too.